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If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

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I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here.

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All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

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One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

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Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.

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You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

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You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.

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If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

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Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!

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None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Writer

Born: April 26th, 1916

Died: October 9th, 1999

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